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Ordinary(?) request to Tanjim Ahmed Shohel Taj

January 24, 2010
By Rasel Pervez

Tanjim Ahmed, who resigned as state minister for home, is returning on Wednesday after a seven-month stay abroad. There was wide speculation on June 1 that the Tanjim would resign. Some dailies published news stating that he had, in fact, resigned due to conflicts with his...
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Gas Rationing – Management Failure

January 23, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.

Petrobangla, the state owned corporation responsible for exploration and exploitation of natural gas, oil and mineral resources of Bangladesh starts holiday staggering of gas using industrial areas in a desperate bid to confront serious gas crisis in greater Dhaka Titas Gas franchise Area (TFA) from next week. Titas Gas...
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Selling the Country to India?

January 17, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.

In a press conference on Bangladesh Prime Minster (PM) Sheikh Hasina’s recently concluded visit to India, Madam Khaleda Zia, ex-Prime Minister and current leader of Opposition in the Parliament of Bangladesh, alleged that the PM had sold the country to India. The salient features of her claims are: • ...
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Even a brick has a soul

January 16, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan

World-renowned architect Louis Kahn, who also designed the parliament building of Bangladesh, while defining his philosophy once said that even a brick has a soul. Three of our top leaders – Shaikh Hasina, Khaleda Zia and H.M. Ershad – have spent confinement within the red brick walls of...
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Replying BNP’s propaganda on India Visit of PM Sheikh Hasina

January 15, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.

It was BNP as expected. The opposition led by Khaleda Zia has shown aggressive reaction to agreements signed and accords reached in the just concluded visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India. During the visit all the existing bilateral issues between the two SAARC neighbours came up...
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The Amazing Achievements of PM Sheikh Hasina from her India trip

January 12, 2010
By E-Bangladesh
The Amazing Achievements of PM Sheikh Hasina from her India trip

By Sushanta Das Gupta and Kh.A.Saleque. Morning dawned brightly and beautifully for Bangladeshis living in different countries of the southern hemisphere with the news that two friendly neighbours Bangladesh and India have finally broken through all impasse to build long lasting forward looking relationship. PM Sheikh Hasina is on...
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Democracy In Bangladesh: Reality Vs. Utopia

January 11, 2010
By Manirul Islam

From the very beginning in post-liberation Bangladesh, the political progress had been murky and was marred with violent rivalry and blood spilling strife. Pro-liberation forces splintered into hostile camps which helped mighty resurrection of just defeated anti-liberation forces. Theory of conspiracies, both within and beyond the boundary, against the...
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So far so good

January 6, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan
So far so good

Photo: Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, in her first public speech after her party’s landslide victory in the 29th December 2008 Parliamentary Election, urged all parties to work together for the betterment of Bangladesh stressing on the importance of the opposition in the country’s future as a democratic state....
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Illogical Statements of Khaleda Zia

January 6, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.
Illogical Statements of Khaleda Zia

Photo: Mrs. Khaleda Zia in a Press Conference, by Liton Rahman,DrikNEWS. Mrs Khleda Zia, Chairperson BNP and Leader of Opposition (now abstaining from the Bangladesh parliament) has issued two statements recently about the running of the affairs of the present government. Awami League led Mahajote Government has just completed its...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Upcoming Visit to India – A Mock Memo

January 5, 2010
By E-Bangladesh
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Upcoming Visit to India – A Mock Memo

- Dr. Habib Siddiqui Indian foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) met Awami league chief Sheik Hasina in her resident on February 19 2007. Image by: Munir uz Zaman, Drik News. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed is scheduled to leave for New Delhi within the next few days. If I were in...
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Power Trading Between India And Bangladesh – A Trend Setter

December 31, 2009
By Kh.A.Saleque.
Power Trading Between India And Bangladesh – A Trend Setter

Using modern technology in irrigation is not new in Bangladesh. Farmers use deep tubewells to pump water from the earth to supply to their fields. But due to huge shortage of electricity, farmers face trouble to supply power to their machines. Image by: Liton Rahman, Drik News On 30th of...
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Light House

December 23, 2009
By Maskwaith Ahsan

Society changes at a rapid pace, we constantly surrender to the automation of neo-gadgets. This has been a ceaseless reality since the Industrial Revolution. But Dhaka society is different. The rate of change is more rapid; social inequity speed-rides on the wheels of corruption; values of truth and goodness...
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Corruption archive of Tarique Rahman

December 21, 2009
By Sushanta Das Gupta
Corruption archive of Tarique Rahman

Photo: Tarique Rahman taken to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on March 8. He has arrested of extortion, a charge brought by a construction contractor. Court gave Gulshan police four days to quiz Tarique after police sought five days to probe the allegation of extorting. Dhaka, Bangladesh. March 9...
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The Scam Allegation Against The Energy Advisor to PM

December 21, 2009
By Kh.A.Saleque.

A Bangladeshi newspapers edited by former energy Advisor to Prime Minster (Khaleda Zia) has published an allegation of financial scam of US$ 5 million against the current Energy Advisor to Prime minister Hasina Wazed. Quoting a letter of an unidentified person named Abu Siddique claiming to represent Petrobangla officials...
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Controversy surrounding Muchai Gas Pipeline Compressor Station of GTCL.

December 18, 2009
By Kh.A.Saleque.

Courtesy: S M Tanvir. One Bangladesh newspaper now being spearheaded by Engr Mahmudur Rahman, the ex Energy Advisor to PM Khaleda Zia and now a columnist recently carried out a report on alleged corruption in the deal with IOC Chevron regarding installation of a Gas Pipeline Compressor Station on GTCL...
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